Illustration: At a neighborhood tofu shop, a customer opens a coin purse over a shallow payment tray. Several coins and one folded banknote are visible as the shopkeeper prepares change beside a wrapped block of tofu.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

現げん金きん

genkin

cash

Example sentences

  1. 現金げんきんで払はらう必要ひつようはありません。

    You don’t have to pay in cash.

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  2. 現金げんきんを盗ぬすまれた。

    Someone stole my cash.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 私わたしは時計とけいを現金げんきんで買かった。

    I bought a watch with cash.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 現金

  • 現present; existingOnゲンKunあらわれる・あらわす・うつつ
  • 金goldOnキン・コン・ゴンKunかね・かな-

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